Basics on How to Read Music

Basics on How To Read Music….

Learning the basics on how to read music is
important in learning how to play any musical
instrument. Music is universal and once you know
how to read music you can play any music.

Here are some techniques on how to read music that
could be helpful for you to learn as you are
taking piano lessons, or any other type of
musical instrument lessons.

· Staff: The staff or staves are made up of
five lines with four spaces between the lines.
Each line and space of the staves go to a letter
name, in this way when a note is drawn on the
line or space, it tells you which note is to be
played. It is the position of the note on the
staff that informs you of how the note is to be
played, and if it is to be a high note, or a low
note. Essentially, what this means is that the
higher a note is on the staff, the higher that
note should sound when played.

· Clef: At the start of a staff, there is a
mark with a symbol, which is referred to as a
clef. It is the clef of the staff that determines
the letter name of the lines and the spaces.
These will change according to the clef.

· Bar Lines: When you are looking at a sheet of
music you will notice that there are vertical
lines on the staff, these are referred to as bar
lines. The purpose of these bar lines is to break
down the staff into units of times; these units
then are broken down into smaller unites that are
more easily managed when actually playing the
music. A double vertical line signals that the
song has ended.

· Ledger Lines: If a music piece has notes that
are higher or lower than those that are written
on the five staff lines, these are written on
what is known as the ledger lines. Just as the
letter names on the staff lines progress in an
alphabetical sequence, so too do the ledger lines
progress in the same fashion.
To learn how to read music it is necessary that
you learn to memorize the letter names of the
lines and spaces on the staff. One of the best
techniques of music reading for beginners is to
use a saying that will help you to memorize each
letter by associating that letter with a word.

One example would be to memorize the letters E G
B D and F you could use a saying like “Each
Good Boy Did Fine.”
Once you find techniques of music reading that
work for you, stick with them and you’ll be
reading music like a pro in no time at all.

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